Charts, Graphs, and Maps For People Who Want To Change The World For The Better

TileMill and MapBox Are Pretty Fun

I wanted to take TileMill for a spin, so I used this data from the RI Data Hub to create this intensity map of kids under the age of 3 enrolled in Early Intervention programs in Rhode Island. Mouseover the dots for more information.

Here’s the code I plugged into the free TileMill app to get this to work:

Here’s a post from the inimitable Brian Boyer, formerly of the Chicago Tribune News Apps team (and now of WaPo, I think): Make It Pretty With TileMill. I’d like to figure out how to label the counties I’ve now imported onto my map…but I don’t want to break the Sleep Rule (more on that later).